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May 6, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, A FARCE IN FOUR ACTS – Act 1: An American girl wears a Chinese dress to her prom. Act 2: SJW outrage ensues over “cultural appropriation” and “casual …

Politics

May 5, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE WILD ANTI-COLONIAL BOYS (AND GIRLS (AND OTHER 36 GENDERS)) – In the dispatches from the front of the culture wars: Students at The George Washington University (GWU) have launched …

Culture / Politics

May 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

MUCH ADO ABOUT APU – Just as Kanye West remains unapologetic about not toeing the cultural-industrial complex’s political line, and just as Keziah Daum remains unapologetic about wearing a Chinese …

Politics

May 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

APPROPRIATE THIS! – A little over a week ago, 17-year old Keziah Daum wore a traditional Chinese dress to her prom. Because people are awful and their awfulness is amplified …

Politics

Dear Karl Marx, happy birthday from The New York Times

May 1, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Karl Marx will be celebrating his 200th birthday on 5 May (as much as you can celebrate in hell), but “The New York Times” opinion pages have already presented the …

Politics

April 29, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHO KILLED THE PROM QUEEN? – Welcome to our new woke times, when wearing a traditional Chinese dress to a prom can get you crucified on social media. PROM pic.twitter.com/gsJ0LtsCmP …

Culture / Politics

Welcome to the Cultural Counter-Revolution

April 26, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It was the best of days, it was the worst of days. This literally is the best day in twitter history. pic.twitter.com/iwwaJSsGFw — Draggin Energy (@philthatremains) April 26, 2018 Was …

Politics

April 25, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

DEVENY DOUBLES DOWN – What’s the best way to follow up your Anzac Day eve tweets in which you insult past and present servicemen and women, ridicule the risks they have …

Politics

April 25, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SELLING THE GENOCIDE – Once in a while (actually, quite often nowadays) a story pops up that makes you question whether seemingly intelligent people have lost moral compass or historical …

Politics

April 25, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A MESSAGE FROM MR SULU FROM AN ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE – Following the recent pile-ups on celebrities guilty of wrong-think, some try to pretend this time it’s really different: No one …

Culture / Politics

April 24, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

BACK ONTO YOUR PLANTATION, WOMEN AND MINORITIES! – All diversity is good, except diversity of opinion. Celebs the hardest hit: Singer Shania Twain has apologized for saying she would have backed …

Politics

Happy Anzac Day from Catherine Deveny

April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

With Yassmin Abdel-Maghied currently overseas, someone has to step in stir the ANZAC pot: Why do people in the armed forces use the word 'serve' to describe their work despite …

Politics

April 20, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

LEST WE FORGET YASSMIN ABDEL-MAGIED HERE SHE IS AGAIN – Like Helen of Troy, Yassmin is a turban that launched a thousand tweets. Last year she was one, this year …

Politics

April 11, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

“MEGAN MCARDLE IS A TROLL”– Megan McArdle braves the editorial pages of “The Washington Post” to argue that, while not morally equivalent, the discrimination, bias and prejudice that conservatives experience inside …

Politics

You’ve got the right to remain silent

April 8, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As I have written before, in our developed Western liberal democracies it’s not the government and its instrumentalities that account for the bulk of efforts to restrict free speech and …

Culture

April 5, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD? – This is terrible on so many different levels: I’ve spent the best part of the last fortnight urgently trying to track …

Politics

April 5, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WAITING FOR MAGIED – All the best to Yassmin Abdel-Magied in her new acting career. Or as Tim Blair has it But Tim, unlike me, is a cynic and unkind. …

Politics

It’s official: PETA members have now shot more people than NRA members*

April 4, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The person who shot and wounded three people (one is in a critical condition) before killing self turns out to be yet another angry white right-wing male: Not humane enough. …

Politics

April 3, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE CONFEDERATE GENERALS – To the left, a slippery slope is not a logical device, it’s their business model: Over the decades, this quiet coastal hamlet …

Politics

March 31, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME – The Swedish government releases an informative brochure: Our story begins with two Swedish government agencies. The job of the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) …